Sweet! Just what I needed to get started, thanks a bunch.
Rolf On 04 Oct 2014, at 02:39, Roozbeh Pournader <[email protected]> wrote: > Look at how nototools does it here: > https://code.google.com/p/noto/source/browse/nototools/font_data.py#22 > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Rolf Langenhuijzen > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry to hijack the Harfbuzz list for this, I think this is more > fontTools/TTX related, but I didn’t see an (active?) TTX list to post this to… > > Basically I’d like to read the name table in a Python script. I thought this > could be done rather easy with fontTools/TTX, but no idea really. Any > pointers?? > > I came across this https://github.com/tchollingsworth/ttname which is > basically what I need, however I don’t need write stuff and basically only > need to read the name table. I started forking it, but then noticed it > depends on some older fontTools version, looking at how it wants to use the > XML reader (import fontTools.ttLib.xmlImport). > So if this is a good start I would dive into that XML reading/parsing and > perhaps update ttname if it’s worth it.. > > As I was looking for the Family Name in particular I’m now running a > subprocess.Popen to “otfinfo --family" grabbing that information ;) > It’s a bit dirty, but for prototyping it works.. > > Kind regards, > Rolf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HarfBuzz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz >
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